Saris

<B>An immersive journey through India’s most enduring garment, told through its weaves, regions, and people, and an authoritative portrait of the sari as India’s most expressive and evolving textile form.?</B><BR><BR>The sari is the most representative apparel of India that has intrigued men and tempted women all over the world. Worn in a variety of ways, the sari is a fabric-length of varying densities in its body, borders and end pieces often woven by combining a range of cottons and silks in colors and patterns that are constantly evolving. This book is an exhaustive overview of this fascinating unstitched garment and a cutting-edge documentation of design and all that supports it socially, culturally and economically. Travelling district by district, village by village, <B><I>Saris of India</I></B> explores an entire spectrum of traditional weaver and printer settlements in fifteen sari-producing states of India.